This tutorial shows you just how easy it is to paint brushstroke candles. They make such a beautiful decoration for a shelf, centerpiece or tablescape. Happy Friday, friends! We're 7 weeks from Thanksgiving and already my Thanksgiving and Christmas posts have crept into my top 10 visited posts. You guys are on it with your planning! These painted brushstroke candles I did for the Darice blog a couple years ago are one of my favorite DIYs to glam up a fall tablescape (or any tablscape!) They were the perfect finishing touch for this navy and gold fall centerpiece, don't you think? Can you burn painted candles? Maybe. If you use non-toxic, water based and formaldehyde-free paint they Continue Reading
Queso White Chicken Chili Recipe
What happens when you take a zesty and flavorful chicken chili and add Queso to it? Magic, that's what happens! This Queso White Chicken Chili is the perfect comfort food and a cool weather menu staple! Hi there and happy Monday! It's a crisp fall Monday in Columbus today, a welcome relief from the 90 degree weather we had last week! It's finally starting to feel like football weather! Football and fall weather go together like football and chili! Football and chili go together like baseball and cracker jacks! Chili goes into our menu rotation on full blast come fall. We've already plowed our way through a batch of my go-to chili (you can check out that recipe here) so I decided to Continue Reading
Rainbow & Clouds Pumpkin Designs with Vinyl
It's so easy to make darling and unique pumpkin designs with vinyl! Make these fun, whimsical rainbow and cloud pumpkins with DIY vinyl pumpkin decals you cut out with your Cricut or other cutting machine. Happy October, friends! Fittingly, my house is like a pumpkin wonderland right now. I. can't.stop. decorating pumpkins! My husband knows once the pumpkins come out for the year that they're going to be around awhile, which he is always so thrilled about. Or actually not at all thrilled. These bright and cheery pumpkin designs are probably my favorite this year. They would be great to make for a pumpkin decorating party or for a kid's room (where mine will go). The rainbow and Continue Reading
How to Paint Faux Concrete Pear Place Card Holders
See just how easy it is to paint faux concrete pear place card holders in a few quick steps. No one will know that they aren't real concrete! This project is sponsored by DecoArt. All ideas and opinions shared are my own. I fell in love with the look of concrete accented with metallic paint when I painted these concrete planter bookends years ago. Fast forward a few years... I saw some concrete pears at a vintage market and thought they would be beautiful painted the same way. Buuuut they were $20 per pear and that's a little more than I care to spend on some fake fruit! My original thought was I would try to make them with concrete mix and a pear mold, but never got around to it. Continue Reading
Host a Halloween Pumpkin Decorating Party with a Cricut
Host a fun pumpkin decorating party for Halloween! These no-carve pumpkin designs make the perfect activity for kids and adults. This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Cricut. The opinions and text are all mine. Pumpkin carving was always one of my favorites parts of fall when I was a kid. But it was always kind of a bummer that I could only explain my vision and give direction since knives and kids don't mix. :) Even though I'm old enough to wield a knife now (haha!), traditional pumpkin carving doesn't really excite me anymore. Decorating pumpkins using my Cricut though, that excites me! It's so much fun and I can get much cuter pumpkins than I Continue Reading
Southwest Steak and Eggs Brunch Bake
Try this delicious Southwest Steak and Eggs Brunch Bake to kickstart your day. Boasting juicy steak, eggs and robust southwest flavors, this is the perfect meal to start a day of tailgating or home-gating! This recipe is sponsored by the Ohio Beef Council. All ideas and opinions shared are my own. Happy fall, friends! Even though yesterday was the official first day of fall, we've been in fall mode for awhile now, enjoying all the pumpkin decor and of course our football Saturdays! Football Saturdays are a little different around here than they used to be since we have a 9+ month old baby. We haven't done any tailgating, but that doesn't mean we aren't cheering on our Buckeyes from Continue Reading
